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ENCYCLOPEDISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does encyclopedism mean?
• ENCYCLOPEDISM (noun)
The noun ENCYCLOPEDISM has 1 sense:
1. profound scholarly knowledge
Familiarity information: ENCYCLOPEDISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Profound scholarly knowledge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship
Hypernyms ("encyclopedism" is a kind of...):
education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "encyclopedism"):
letters (scholarly attainment)
Derivation:
encyclopedist (a person who compiles information for encyclopedias)
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